In a frigid apocalypse, I went on a shopping spree with the reborn.

"Long Jiuxing, I know that you have no parents since you were a child and have been searching for them all along." Wang Dawei said with great emotion as he held up a megaphone.

"No one in this world knows the true identities of your biological parents except me. Long Jiuxing, you are strong, and so am I. We are natural partners. With our combined strength, we can sweep away everything..."

His response was a powerful axe and scalpel thrown by Long Jiuxing.

"Uh..." As hot blood gushed from his neck, Wang Dawei was still holding a megaphone, and he lowered his head slightly in disbelief.

A scalpel was stuck in his chest, with only a small part of the handle sticking out; the rest was completely submerged in his flesh.

A scalpel fell to the ground; it had been aimed at his groin, though he was wearing iron shorts.

Even with Long Jiuxing's powerful force, the ordinary scalpel couldn't penetrate the iron underpants' protection and fell straight to the ground.

The most deadly thing was the axe at the neck.

Not far away, in a corner, Jiang Qingyue kept staring at the leaderboard until Wang Dawei's name disappeared from the three leaderboards, then she nodded slightly to Long Jiuxing.

Long Jiuxing quickly approached and immediately took Wang Dawei's personal computer.

All of this happened in the blink of an eye, and Wang Dawei collapsed to the ground only after the quantum computer was in Long Jiuxing's hands.

Confirming that the quantum computer hadn't turned into snowflakes and disappeared like last time, Long Jiuxing breathed a slight sigh of relief.

Like Jiang Qingyue, many people were staring at the quantum computer. When Wang Dawei's name disappeared from the leaderboard, those who hadn't even dared to peek out to watch the excitement before couldn't resist their greed.

Some opened the door, some opened the window.

Jiang Qingyue picked up the megaphone from the ground and put it to her mouth: "Kill anyone who shows their face."

The four words, carrying a chilling tone, brought those who had just begun to act to a halt.

Jiang Qingyue pulled Long Jiuxing to the dead corner where the unit door connected to the small garden, where even if someone had wood or a granary, they couldn't sweep this spot.

She continued shouting through the megaphone, "I am Jiang Qingyue, and I am with Long Jiuxing. Anyone who is confident they can kill us both, feel free to try." A person's name is like a tree's shadow; if not now, when?

As Jiang Qingyue had predicted, things turned out exactly as she had.

The appearance of Jiang Qingyue and Long Jiuxing, two names that had been at the top of the list since the beginning of the apocalypse, was like a bucket of cold water, completely extinguishing the greed that was stirring in everyone's hearts.

As residents of Xingfu Community, they knew all too well how strong Wang Dawei was. He was a reborn individual, a powerful being who had used multiple special items and possessed precognitive abilities.

Now, he's dead.

Wang Dawei had previously mentioned that Jiang Qingyue was also a reborn person, and one who had suppressed Wang Dawei multiple times.

With the addition of Long Jiuxing, a killer star, this combination is no longer one where simply having more people can bring an advantage.

"Get back inside, all of you. Close the doors and windows. Anyone who moves before dawn is dead. I said it."

The sound emanating from the loudspeaker left many feeling resentful.

Wang Dawei's personal computer and his habit of taking notes—even though Liu Yuyao took his previous notebook, he would make a new one—were things many people had speculated about. Even without the notebook, the supplies piled up in Wang Dawei's house were enough to make many starving people itch with envy.

but……

That's Jiang Qingyue!

That's Long Jiuxing!

In less than three seconds, all the windows in sight were sealed, the curtains were drawn, and the doors were closed.

Before, there was a little smoke coming out of the window, but now there's not even any smoke in sight.

Jiang Qingyue was pleased with their sensibility: "Let's go, let's go check out Wang Dawei's house."

Long Jiuxing wiped the axe on Wang Dawei's clothes, picked up the scalpel, and searched the body. Finding nothing useful, he then followed Jiang Qingyue into Wang Dawei's house.

Upon entering, I saw two women huddled on the living room sofa, both of whom had covered their eyes with their hands.

Hearing footsteps approaching, they quickly said, "We didn't see or hear anything. We're just following Wang Dawei to make a living; we haven't done anything wrong."

"Wang Dawei has a newly written notebook, but he has become more cautious since Liu Yuyao left. We have never seen what is written in it. He usually keeps it in his own space."

"There are also some important supplies, such as trading currency and special items, in his space. The remaining supplies are in the three bedrooms, and there is also some in the kitchen."

Jiang Qingyue looked at the two of them for a moment, then frowned slightly, feeling a strange sense of familiarity between them.

She has a pretty good memory; anyone who has bought something from her shop, even if she can't name them, will look familiar. But she's quite certain she's never seen these two before.

Without much hesitation, Jiang Qingyue walked over and slapped each of them unconscious, then began searching Wang Dawei's house.

Most of the supplies were things she had seen before, with food, water, and toilet paper being the most abundant.

In addition, there were power generation equipment; they found a total of six sets of storage batteries, which were even larger than the one she bought, as well as several diesel generators and barrels of diesel fuel.

"There's too much; we can't move it."

Jiang Qingyue looked at them and saw that they were all good things, especially the seeds, as well as a lot of fertilizer and pesticides.

Although she no longer needs pesticides, seeds and fertilizer are exactly what she needs.

Just then, Jiang Qingyue's and Long Jiuxing's personal computers simultaneously issued notifications.

[One unattended quantum computer detected. Merge?]

Jiang Qingyue was taken aback: "So it can detect even murders committed by others."

She thought of a possibility: "Doesn't that mean that if a strong person leads the charge and slaughters indiscriminately, the sixth brother following behind can actually obtain an unclaimed quantum computer without lifting a finger and choose to fuse with it to enhance his strength?"

"Damn, this is even more disgusting than stealing kills."

She said to Long Jiuxing, "You should merge first. After merging, you should inherit Wang Dawei's space. See if there's any space left. I'll go find the things we urgently need and fill the space up first."

"From now on, we'll memorize as much as we can, and we'll just leave the rest as we can't."

As she spoke, Jiang Qingyue walked towards the side of the bed, where it was piled up to the brim.

He had barely taken a step when Long Jiuxing grabbed his wrist.

"How..."

Before she could finish speaking, Long Jiuxing swiftly clicked on her personal computer: "Merge".

"No..." Jiang Qingyue wanted to refuse, but it was too late.

After choosing to merge, Wang Dawei's quantum computer was absorbed by Xiao Yi, and then a feeling exactly the same as when he took the constitution-enhancing medicine spread throughout his body.

Before she could even properly feel it, Jiang Qingyue frowned: "This is your spoils of war."

"Sister Xiaoyue," Long Jiuxing knew what she was going to say, "I want to give you the best."

Jiang Qingyue knew she wanted to repay a debt of gratitude, and said helplessly, "Didn't I tell you? We're friends. It doesn't matter whether you become stronger or I become stronger. You don't have to think about giving me everything."

"Since they're all the same, why can't I give them to you?"

"I..." Jiang Qingyue was completely bewildered.

Before she could think of a rebuttal, Jiang Qingyan jumped out and grabbed her trouser leg, pulling her towards the kitchen.

Jiang Qingyue was helpless. Things had come to this point, and they had already merged. She couldn't very well kill herself and return the quantum computer to Long Jiuxing.

To prevent this from happening again, she said to Long Jiuxing in a slightly warning tone, "You can't do this next time. Next time, no matter who killed him, as long as you get the quantum computer, you'll be the first to be integrated with it."

Long Jiuxing pretended not to hear. Sister Xiaoyue had already said that her life was very precious, and it was not enough to repay her kindness with just a quantum computer from Wang Dawei.

When they arrived at the kitchen, they realized that Yanbao was referring to the large freezer.

Opening the freezer revealed a whole freezer full of various kinds of meatballs: beef meatballs, fish meatballs, cuttlefish meatballs... a wide variety of them filled the entire freezer.

The little white snake also got off Long Jiuxing's body, climbed into the freezer, and used its tail to pull out a bag of beef balls.

Judging from the way the two little ones are acting, it's obvious they want to take them back to the shelter.

"I'll try my best," Jiang Qingyue said helplessly. "I'll first see how much more space Wang Dawei can hold. Let's make it clear beforehand, seeds come first."

Jiang Qingyue opened her personal panel.

Jiang Qingyue:

Health stat: 95/100

Satiety level: 89/100

Moisture content: 81/100

Trading currency: 199900

Space backpack: 1/9 cubic meter

Overall Index: 35124+

After incorporating Wang Dawei's data, Jiang Qingyue's already high comprehensive index directly broke the 30,000 mark.

Combat power and survival index have definitely increased, but Jiang Qingyue doesn't have time to look at them right now; she's eyeing the backpack.

When the trading area opened for the first time, Wang Dawei took out three special items.

Jiang Qingyue remembered clearly: one was the Chosen One, one was a spatial backpack, and one was a physique potion.

To withstand the bitter cold, she initially purchased a constitution-enhancing potion. However, the fact that Wang Dawei was already selling his spatial backpack and constitution-enhancing potion at that time suggests he had absorbed even better ones.

It seems that this was indeed the case; this guy's backpack actually has nine cubic meters.

"Xiao Yi, Xiao Yi, open your inventory."

[Yes, Master.]

This was Jiang Qingyue's first time using the space backpack. After opening it, she originally thought she would see a virtual space and the items inside.

Surprisingly, a list of items appeared on the quantum computer.

Space backpack: 1/9 cubic meter

天谴之子×1、疗伤药剂×1、交易币×199900、日记本×1、相册×1、力工×1、物资大礼包×1

There weren't many items, and none of them took up much space. The largest item was the large supply package, which occupied nearly one cubic meter of space, leaving eight cubic meters of space in the backpack.

Jiang Qingyue was completely stunned after reading it.

Eight cubic meters, what does that mean?

The two-meter-long freezer that she usually uses in her seafood shop is incredibly spacious; it would take ten large freezers to fill this eight-cubic-meter space.

Although it's impossible to store all of Wang Dawei's belongings, it's still possible to store many important items, and Wang Dawei's place is just sitting empty.

"Sister Xiaoyue?" Seeing her stunned, Long Jiuxing waved his hand in front of her.

"It's okay." Jiang Qingyue grinned. "Move it all, but don't take the freezer. Just take the food inside. That will save a lot of space."

"Take the seeds and fertilizer with you too. Oh, and look for other women's products, like underwear and sanitary napkins, and take those as well."

While they were rummaging through things, Jiang Qingyue took out the laborer.

Just from the name, you can tell this thing is useful right now.

It is a familiar little round ball, transparent, containing a mini wooden figure.

"Xiao Yi, Xiao Yi, please verify."

[No need for authentication, Master. You inherited it from someone else's quantum computer. The original owner of the quantum computer has already authenticated it, so a second authentication is unnecessary.]

Xiao Yi directly displayed the laborer's data.

[Special item, low-level craftsmanship, serial number 8192]

[8: From the Eighth Experimental Zone]

[1: Fixed purpose - transportation]

[9: A total of nine were deployed in this experimental area]

[2: You are the second person to receive this.]

Upon seeing this data, Jiang Qingyue understood why Wang Dawei hadn't used this special item, but instead left it gathering dust in his spatial backpack.

This laborer's purpose was simply to move things, and that was his only function.

Who is Wang Dawei?

With 100,000 men under his command, does he lack porters?

"Well, it's fine if you don't need it, but I do." Jiang Qingyue couldn't wait to use it.

The next moment, a giant wooden figure appeared in front of me, with its feet on the ground and its head on the ceiling.

"Two meters eighty centimeters," Jiang Qingyue blurted out. As a resident of Xingfu Community, she knew the building's ceiling height all too well.

The two-and-a-half-meter-tall wooden figure turned its head to look at its master, Jiang Qingyue, without saying a word, just staring at him.

Jiang Qingyue swallowed hard: "Xiao Yi, Xiao Yi, how do I command it?"

[Replying to Master, the workhorse is a special item; it has no intelligence, only a transport program implanted in it. Master needs to pack the items to be moved and place them in front of it, and it will carry them and follow behind.]

It's more troublesome than I imagined; no wonder Wang Dawei doesn't use it.

"Xiao Yi, how much weight can it carry?" Jiang Qingyue looked at this big guy and thought it must weigh at least several hundred kilograms.

[Reporting to Master, the maximum load-bearing capacity for a laborer is two tons.]

Jiang Qingyue's eyes lit up instantly: "Then why bother with selection? Just pack them all up and take them away, quick, quick, quick!"

Jiang Qingyue found a rope, bed sheets, and duvet covers, and used Wang Dawei's duvet cover as a big bag, stuffing all sorts of odds and ends into it.

Fearing that there would be too much stuff to fit out the door, they simply dragged it to the yard outside to pack it.

After filling the remaining eight cubic meters of space, she and Long Jiuxing each carried a large package. The remaining supplies were bundled up in various ways, turning it into a huge package that was almost two stories high.

The laborer mechanically bent down, gripped the large package tightly with both hands, raised it above his head, and stood behind Jiang Qingyue.

She took a step, and the laborer took a step; she stopped, and the laborer stopped.

"Let's go, there's not much left at Wang Dawei's house."

As Jiang Qingyue was leaving, she remembered something and picked up the megaphone again. "Where are Wang Dawei's lackeys? They've voluntarily handed over the trading coins they had on them to me."

Faced with Long Jiuxing's questioning gaze, Jiang Qingyue explained, "We didn't have many trading coins originally. Even after inheriting Wang Dawei's, we're still short a hundred to reach 200,000."

"These lackeys who follow Wang Dawei are no good either. If we squeeze some money out of them, we can upgrade our quantum computers to level two when we get back."

On their own, let alone a hundred trading coins, even just one would be a matter of luck. Besides, it's not just about trading coins.

After waiting for a while, nothing happened.

Jiang Qingyue picked up the megaphone again: "Give me five hundred transaction coins, or I'll go door to door to collect them."

No sooner had he finished speaking than a small bag was thrown down from the top of a building with a thud.

Before the small bag even hit the ground, the window above was closed again.

"Yanbao," Jiang Qingyue called out.

Jiang Qingyan leaped out and dragged the small bag back.

Jiang Qingyue opened the package and saw that there were quite a few, about five hundred. She didn't count them carefully and muttered, "They're smart enough."

Jiang Qingyue looked at the household that had thrown down the trading coins and smiled wickedly: "Found them. The person who can pull out 500 trading coins right now must be one of Wang Dawei's right-hand men. Among them, there might be someone who went to ambush you with Wang Dawei's clone back then. Even if not, this person must know who participated in the ambush back then."

Long Jiuxing understood what she meant.

After thinking for a moment, he shook his head: "It was dark back then and I couldn't see clearly. Besides, the people around Wang Dawei change quickly. Maybe all the people who surrounded me are dead. Even if they aren't all dead, I wouldn't recognize them unless I kill everyone at Happiness Base."

They've killed hundreds of thousands of people, but they're not that depraved. They've already come all this way.

Jiang Qingyue said, "Wait for me, I'll be right back."

She went upstairs.

When they came down, only a little bit of splattered blood was on their trouser legs.

"I had them write down the names of the people who went to kill you. After they checked each other's names, we confirmed that some of the people who went to the hospital to kill you died, and one was still alive. I have already killed him."

With that, she slung her backpack over her shoulder: "Let's go home and keep hiding."

After the figures of the group disappeared from sight and were completely out of sight, Jiang Qingtian finally closed the curtains completely by the window and withdrew her lingering gaze.

Jiang Mitian sneered: "Didn't you look down on my and your mother's way of doing things? Didn't you despise us? Did you think we would scheme against that brat Jiang Qingyue for our own benefit?"

"You care about her so much, now that she's here, why don't you go and beg her to take you away and live a better life?"

Jiang Qingtian didn't say anything, and didn't even look at her parents. She just silently returned to the room where the family of three lived.

Not long after, Jiang Mitian and his wife followed them into the room, looking terrified and cursing under their breath.

They cursed Jiang Qingyue as an ingrate for ignoring his second uncle, and they also cursed Wang Dawei for being so weak and dying so quickly.

As they argued, they brought up old grievances, and the couple started arguing again.

In the end, just like countless times in previous years, they couldn't reach a conclusion and took their anger out on Jiang Qingtian.

"She's your cousin, and you haven't harmed her. Why didn't you call out to her and let her take our family of three away?"

"Exactly. With Long Jiuxing as their henchman, and after they robbed Wang Dawei of his personal computer and so many supplies, they'll be living the high life every day."

Jiang Qingtian lifted her eyelids slightly: "Does she owe you, or does she owe me?"

"In the apocalypse, resources are incredibly precious; a single piece of candy is more valuable than a human life. Why should she support me and let me eat and drink for free?"

She wasn't stupid; she knew that with Wang Dawei dead, the Happiness Base would be in chaos, and their lives would only become more difficult than before.

She had considered going with her cousin, but she couldn't bring herself to say it. She felt that her cousin's parents didn't deserve it, and as their daughter, she didn't deserve it either.

Jiang Mitian: "Because I'm her second uncle!"

Jiang Qingtian lowered her eyes: "Oh, then go and call them."

Jiang Mitian was choked half to death. If he dared to shout, he would have done so already.

In fact, he not only dared not shout, but even kept praying that Jiang Qingyue had not seen the message he had posted earlier and was unaware of his existence.

Otherwise, if Jiang Qingyue found out that he had conspired with Wang Dawei to frame her, given Jiang Qingyue's current strength, he would be doomed.